Within 300 km
Earthquakes near Basseterre
Basseterre, Saint George Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis · population 12,920. Every earthquake within 300 km since 1900.
Past 30 days28M2.5+ within 300 km
Past year437M2.5+
Since 1900526M4.5+, 17 of them M6+
How often M6+7 yraverage gap between M6+ quakes
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Magnitude 4.5+ per year since 1900
Within 300 km of Basseterre. Small quakes were rarely recorded worldwide before the 1970s, so early years show fewer.
The strongest on record
- 7.5 25 km NW of Saint John’s, Antigua and Barbuda Oct 8, 1974
- 7.0 92 km E of Beauséjour, Guadeloupe Oct 3, 1914
- 6.5 18 km SE of Market Shop, Saint Kitts and Nevis Mar 16, 1985
- 6.4 64 km ENE of Parham, Antigua and Barbuda Dec 24, 1967
- 6.4 18 km SSE of Berekua, Dominica Jan 8, 1959
- 6.3 20 km SSW of Petites Anses, Guadeloupe Nov 21, 2004
- 6.3 121 km NNW of The Valley, Anguilla Feb 16, 1906
- 6.2 32 km SSE of Fig Tree, Saint Kitts and Nevis Nov 10, 1935
- 6.1 105 km ENE of Parham, Antigua and Barbuda Jul 7, 1925
- 6.1 40 km WSW of Pointe-Noire, Guadeloupe Jan 20, 2023
The latest nearby
- 3.2 36 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands Oct 30, 2026
- 2.9 22 km SE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico Oct 29, 2026
- 2.7 23 km NNW of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands Oct 29, 2026
- 2.5 10 km ESE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico Oct 28, 2026
- 3.3 56 km N of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands Oct 28, 2026
- 4.1 21 km SE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico Oct 28, 2026
- 3.0 30 km N of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands Oct 27, 2026
- 2.8 64 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands Oct 27, 2026
- 3.3 69 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands Oct 25, 2026
- 3.1 39 km ESE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands Oct 25, 2026
- 3.4 85 km ENE of Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands Oct 25, 2026
- 3.3 24 km ESE of Isabel Segunda, Puerto Rico Oct 24, 2026
- 3.4 117 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands Oct 22, 2026
- 2.9 45 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands Oct 20, 2026
- 4.7 23 km WSW of Sandy Point Town, Saint Kitts and Nevis Oct 18, 2026